Tag: Green Deal

COP26: Tempest in a Teapot? (Sophie Conrad, Marin Gillot, Institut Montaigne)

The COP26 summit in Glasgow came to an end only a few weeks ago, yet life has already returned to normal. Domestic and global...

Housing growth in the Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. metro areas shows why the U.S. is failing at climate resilience (Rushaine Goulbourne, Jenny Schuetz,...

Climate resilience has emerged as a key priority for the Biden administration. President Joe Biden has announced an ambitious goal to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas...

A new climate finance framework for investing in urban resilience (Joseph W. Kane, Adie Tomer, Brookings)

As climate change continues to intensify—raising the urgency to address mounting risks and escalating costs—the public and private response remains slow and uneven. Steps...

Developing countries need better access to low-emission energy technologies (John Kemp, Reuters)

Developing countries have become the world’s largest as well as fastest-growing energy consumers, ensuring they will play the decisive role in shaping the future...

How can future leaders prepare for an environmentally-destabilized world? (Chatham House)

The consequences of the environmental crisis are growing and have implications for economies around the world. Into the future, these impacts will grow, demanding...

The next steps for meeting nationally determined contributions after COP26 (Dina Azhgaliyeva, Dil Rahut and Peter J. Morgan, ADBI)

Reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHG) must be achieved in the coming decades to avoid catastrophic global temperature rises....

2021 ADBI Annual Conference Keynote Speech: Alok Sharma, President, COP26 (ADBI)

COP26 President Alok Sharma welcomed efforts to scale up financing for developing Asia’s clean energy transition to achieve a 1.5-degree Celsius reduction in global...

2021 ADBI Annual Conference Keynote Speech: Masatsugu Asakawa, President, Asian Development Bank (ADBI)

Asian Development Bank President Masatsugu Asakawa helped open the 2021 ADBI Annual Conference by discussing onward climate challenges and priorities in Asia and the Pacific. 2021 ADBI...

2021 ADBI Annual Conference Keynote Speech: Jim Skea, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ADBI)

Remarks on mitigation needs in light of the latest climate science, delivered by Jim Skea, Co-Chair, Working Group III - Mitigation of Climate Change,...

Green Growth at the End of the Flat World (Ricardo Hausmann, Project-Syndicate)

While the losers from decarbonization are relatively obvious, the winners will be those countries that combine geographic luck with smart action. First movers that...

Denser cities could help China reconcile economic and climate goals (Yoonhee Kim, Martin Raiser, Katherine Stapleton, Brookings)

China’s rapid economic progress has been associated with a rapidly rising carbon footprint. The country now wonders how it can extend its economic bull...

The climate conundrum (Dennis J. Snower, Brookings)

The COP26 summit is now over and the question remains, where do we go from here? Although progress has been made—a “big step forward” said...

Rolls-Royce exec: Decarbonization is a warfighting opportunity for industry and its customers (Tom Bell, Defense News)

The superior capability of our customers and the security of the nations they serve have always been job No. 1 for all of us...

US Department of Energy Funds Clean Energy Innovations Program (IndustryWeek)

Engineers and scientists with ideas for decarbonizing the manufacturing industry in the United States have expanded access to an entrepreneurship program offering a $100,000 annual stipend...

Autonomous trucks can drastically cut emissions (Here’s how) (Greg Nichols, ZDNet)

Can autonomous vehicles lower the carbon footprint of the transportation and shipping sector? According to a new environmental impact evaluation, the answer seems to...

Green Upheaval The New Geopolitics of Energy (Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Foreign Affairs)

It is not hard to understand why people dream of a future defined by clean energy. As greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow and...